Gordon v. Swift

The appellee, Alexander Swift, brought this-suit against the appellants, John Gordon, Sr., John Gordon, Jr., Helen L. Gordon, and Joseph J. Terstegge, on a note-given by the three Gordons to the appellee, Swift, and to foreclose a mortgage given to secure the same by John Gordon, Jr., and Helen L. Gordon. T.erstegge was made a party because he had purchased the real estate mortgaged-after the mortgage was made and recorded.

All the defendants joined in two paragraphs of the answer,, setting up a partial failure of the consideration of the note and mortgage, and the substance of these…